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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Trinidad

We are home and it feels oh so good to be back in the USA! For those that don't know, the husband and I got home around 1:30 AM from taking a group of 8 high school students down to Trinidad with Atlanta K-Life. We joined K-Life chapters from Kansas City and Waco, TX to bring our group total to close to 50 people! We linked arms with TTUM (Trinidad and Tobago Urban Ministries) and served in several villages around Trinidad by visiting primary (elementary) schools, doing some construction, visiting an orphanage, visiting a boys' prison and hosting a Vacation Bible Club each afternoon. We still managed to have some free time where we shopped around Port-of-Spain and spent a day on the beautiful beach of Maracas Bay. We have had an incredible trip and it is so refreshing to see how God is moving around the world. I could type for a week and still not express how much we were able to see and experience during our seven days on this tropical island off the coast of Venezuela. I think the pictures will provide the best description...

Waiting for the crew at the airport at 4:30 in the AM

The whole group on our cultural tour visiting a Hindu temple. Trinidad is predominantly Hindu due to the large Indian population.

Atlanta crew

You have to remove your shoes to go inside the temple.

This is actually one of their gods that they worship outside one of the temples.

Vacation Bible Club in an area known as Jacob Hill.

We visited three different schools during the week where we did some skits, sang some songs, shared a short message and broke the kids into smaller groups to talk to them about Jesus.

"Liming" is Trinidadian slang for hanging out

Construction around the TTUM campus

Party time after nightly devos.

On our way to Maracas Bay

This guy came up and played his guitar for the group for some money. It was totally worth it.

The Opreas

Dustin and I are high school sweethearts that graduated from Clemson University and have been married since May 2007. We now live in Atlanta, GA and love our life in the big city. We love our church, discovering great restaurants, traveling to new places and cheering on our Clemson Tigers. We've gone through our share of heartbreak in our attempt to become parents, but are so thankful to have welcomed two sweet baby boys into our family. We serve a loving and faithful God that has seen us through the hardest times and blessed us immensely more than we could've ever imagined.